Parkstone nr. Poole

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11356PAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church St. Osmund [cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Osmund [aka Osmer, Osmond, Osmund of Salisbury]
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Bournemouth Rd., in the eastern suburbs of Poole
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Additional Comments: recycled font / composite font: basin originally from Sturminster Marshall; modern base by E.S. Prior
Font Notes:
Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is a stone basin on a shaft." Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Newman & Pevsner (1972) write: "Font, a fluted bowl from Sturminster Marshall, probably C13, on a base by Prior" [i.e., Edward Schröeder Prior, academic and art historian, co-designer of St. Osmund's]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 3: 361
  • Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 75
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 335